...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.
AristotleAll human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
AristotlePleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.
AristotleSince we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to be a thing; one, that if certain things hold it is necessary that this does; another, what initiated the change; and fourth, the aim), all these are proved through the middle term.
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